one-hit wonder quarterbacks

John Stofa, early Miami backup. And the Jensen guy (Jim?) too who also played wide receiver.

Marlin Briscoe played some QB for Buffalo and Denver in a pinch.

Tom Matte, Ed Rutkowski.

Clint Longley epitomizes the one-hit wonder, like Clemens. Except Longley won his game.

A lot of guys mentioned on this thread (including Dennis Shaw, my nominee) had fairly solid NFL careers and played a lot for 2-3 years.

 

Virgil Carter, led the Bengals back from a 1-6 start to win the AFC Central in 1970 under the tutelage of offensive coordinator Bill Walsh. Replaced in 1971 by Ken Anderson.

 

Sam, can you be called a franchise savior if the franchise is brand new?

Bringing things a little bit more current, how about Mike McMahon. Fifth-round pick by Detroit out of Rutgers (back during the 1-10 years), comes out on Thanksgiving Day and runs through everyone for a near-win. On every play, kid was going to die or make something miraculous happen. Now he's doing the same damn thing in the CFL.

 

I could be wrong, but I think the immortal Oliver Luck led the Oilers to their only two wins of the '83 season.

 

Todd has never stopped at one hit.

 

The correct spelling is A-S-S-H-O-L-E.

One of the five biggest douchebags I've ever seen. Could count on one hand the number of people on the Jets who gave a shit about him.

 

Would you like him better if I told you that he nearly ran me over with his car back when he was with the Steelers?

True story. I'm walking in a crosswalk and this car comes speeding up the road. Car jerks to a stop and I look in the window to give the driver a much-deserved dirty look and there sits Neil O'Donnell.

 

O'Donnell knew it was time to get out of Pittsburgh when Cowher bought him a real fast motorcycle.

 

That would be an illegal formation.

 

Anybody mention Rob Johnson? Somehow the guy finagled a big contract before anyone realized he sucked and made Leftwich look like a god in shoulder pads.